Olivia Guntarik
Biographic Data
| ID | 453405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivia Guntarik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivia |
| FAMILY NAME | Guntarik |
| SIGNATURE | GUNTARIK O |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6423-5517 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Indigenous Cartographies
With the rise of pervasive games in the last two decades, peaking with Pokémon GO , questions surrounding the perceptions, use, and ownership of public space have rapidly emerged. Beyond commercial and public uses of city spaces, how are such experiences attentive to local, regional, cross-cultural, ancient, and persistent notions of place? How can locative and pervasive experiences respond to local and Indigenous understandings of place? Perhaps…
Storying Place
Native migrant narratives in an age of alchemy and activism
This article braids our personal and political narratives to examine approaches to creative ethnography as a technique of writing for activists’ goals. Using autobricolage—mixing art, activism and ethnography—we explore narrative as a decolonising strategy to centre Indigenous ontology. The insights carry implications for how we understand and engage with the experiences of others, particularly marginalised voices. The article also offers reflect…
Indigenous Resistance in Digital Worlds
Indigenous Resistance in the Digital Age
Indigenous people hold the key to protecting the environment. The role of the digital in this relationship is indispensable
Michael Jackson in a Borneo Village; or Autobricolage and Other Acts of Erasure
This blended genre piece politicizes place through poems, narrative, and musical mash-ups. It uses ethnography, memoir, and spoken-word song, a creative technique I call autobricolage. Refusing conventions that create immediate access to meaning, this narrative allows me to present a world in motion and time as non-linear. Sacred temporality disrupts ordinary instances of time and place and enables the erasure of colonial inscriptions. My returns…
From Sit-Ins To #revolutions
This timely collection of essays examines the growth of digital activism, including how international activists have employed technological innovations to tackle global problems
Bridging the geospatial gap
Indigenous knowledge of place is not well-served by today's digital geospatial technologies, such as spatial data, maps, spatial databases, and GIS. This paper aims to identify and explore new connections between Indigenous knowledge of place and digital geospatial technologies. Our analysis is structured around three key gaps in past work: (a) the overrepresentation of digital data about space, rather than knowledge of place; (b) a lack of facil…
Fig(urations)
This vignette about experimental participatory art is part of an intellectual foray that criss-crossed Melbourne and Manhattan. As a refusal to form, the intent was to pose more questions than to provide answers on the process of collecting for an archive. The project draws from a site-specific work, and should be read as an ode to Walter Benjamin, providing a poetic description of collecting as method, walking and philosophy
Traces
This article explores the use of mobile eye tracking to provide insights on the dynamics of haptic (touch/sense) and visual experience. We created a digital cultural walking trail (TRACES), designing an app to explore user experiences of their environment, and as a way to reveal the multilayered interactions between places and technology. Using mobile eye tracker technology to trace a person’s place-based engagements, we show how the design of ta…
Rites of passage
This article is about resettled Afghan Hazaras in Australia, many of whom are currently undergoing a complex process of transition (from transience into a more stable position) for the first time in their lives. Despite their permanent residency status, we show how resettlement can be a challenging transitional experience. For these new migrants, we argue that developing a sense of belonging during the transition period is a critical rite of pass…
Literary fictions
This article examines literature by Asian writers living in Australia. I focus on contemporary Asian Australian writing and how it has been marketed and reviewed. My aim is to present two major issues working against both its reception by Australian and international readers and the ways of thinking about representations of ‘Asia’ in general. The first issue relates to the publishing industry's tendency to box Asian Australian literature under th…
Borneo through the Lens
Early photographic and anthropological processes produced specific forms of colonial knowledge. Images of Borneo captured during the colonial period thus offer a snapshot of the emerging field of anthropology. British explorer A.C. Haddon played a role in shaping early anthropological theory, from his 1898 expedition in Torres Straits and Sarawak to the subsequent analysis of his findings upon his retum to Britain. During this time, the study of …
Homecoming
BACKGROUND: 'Homecoming: The Enigma of Returning' is a creative writing piece that was published in the Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) 2012 journal Asian Ethnicity, published by Routledge. The work contributes to a longstanding theme of enquiry on migration to Australia from Asia. The work presents an alternative story of migrant resettlement in Australia from a region of southeast Asia often overlooked in popular and scholarly engage…
"Dangerous" Historiographies
Aboriginal historiographies challenge conventional interpreting of societies and cultures' histories which are often linear, singular, and excluding of other than dominant narratives. But alternative solutions to conventional history are often binarized as minority or oppositional groups and simply "accommodated" in what continues as the dominant story. The work of Japanese scholar Minoru Hokari from his time with Gurindji people, an Aboriginal A…
Let's talk about texts
This article engages with visual media texts to complicate the ways audiences interpret race politics in the light of competing discourses on cultural difference. I adopt a case study approach to examining how value can be ascribed to ethnic cultural knowledge in ways that productively contribute to shaping public engagement with race politics in a contemporary context. How might visual texts work to mediate the invisible dimensions of the socio-…
Resistance narratives
Narrative analysis has emerged as a central analytical force in furthering a critique of colonial discourse. This article examines the relationship between narrative and discourse, by offering a comparative analysis of indigenous narrative, in the context of Australian and Malaysian history and contemporary museum practices of representation. I argue that indigenous knowledge is underpinned by narratives that enable a radical reconceptualization …
Rites of passage
This article is about resettled Afghan Hazaras in Australia, many of whom are currently undergoing a complex process of transition (from transience into a more stable position) for the first time in their lives. Despite their permanent residency status, we show how resettlement can be a challenging transitional experience. For these new migrants, we argue that developing a sense of belonging during the transition period is a critical rite of pass…
Resistance narratives
Narrative analysis has emerged as a central analytical force in furthering a critique of colonial discourse. This article examines the relationship between narrative and discourse, by offering a comparative analysis of indigenous narrative, in the context of Australian and Malaysian history and contemporary museum practices of representation. I argue that indigenous knowledge is underpinned by narratives that enable a radical reconceptualization …
Borneo through the Lens
Early photographic and anthropological processes produced specific forms of colonial knowledge. Images of Borneo captured during the colonial period thus offer a snapshot of the emerging field of anthropology. British explorer A.C. Haddon played a role in shaping early anthropological theory, from his 1898 expedition in Torres Straits and Sarawak to the subsequent analysis of his findings upon his retum to Britain. During this time, the study of …
Indigenous Cartographies
With the rise of pervasive games in the last two decades, peaking with Pokémon GO , questions surrounding the perceptions, use, and ownership of public space have rapidly emerged. Beyond commercial and public uses of city spaces, how are such experiences attentive to local, regional, cross-cultural, ancient, and persistent notions of place? How can locative and pervasive experiences respond to local and Indigenous understandings of place? Perhaps…
Native migrant narratives in an age of alchemy and activism
This article braids our personal and political narratives to examine approaches to creative ethnography as a technique of writing for activists’ goals. Using autobricolage—mixing art, activism and ethnography—we explore narrative as a decolonising strategy to centre Indigenous ontology. The insights carry implications for how we understand and engage with the experiences of others, particularly marginalised voices. The article also offers reflect…
Michael Jackson in a Borneo Village; or Autobricolage and Other Acts of Erasure
This blended genre piece politicizes place through poems, narrative, and musical mash-ups. It uses ethnography, memoir, and spoken-word song, a creative technique I call autobricolage. Refusing conventions that create immediate access to meaning, this narrative allows me to present a world in motion and time as non-linear. Sacred temporality disrupts ordinary instances of time and place and enables the erasure of colonial inscriptions. My returns…
Bridging the geospatial gap
Indigenous knowledge of place is not well-served by today's digital geospatial technologies, such as spatial data, maps, spatial databases, and GIS. This paper aims to identify and explore new connections between Indigenous knowledge of place and digital geospatial technologies. Our analysis is structured around three key gaps in past work: (a) the overrepresentation of digital data about space, rather than knowledge of place; (b) a lack of facil…
Resistance narratives
Narrative analysis has emerged as a central analytical force in furthering a critique of colonial discourse. This article examines the relationship between narrative and discourse, by offering a comparative analysis of indigenous narrative, in the context of Australian and Malaysian history and contemporary museum practices of representation. I argue that indigenous knowledge is underpinned by narratives that enable a radical reconceptualization …
Let's talk about texts
This article engages with visual media texts to complicate the ways audiences interpret race politics in the light of competing discourses on cultural difference. I adopt a case study approach to examining how value can be ascribed to ethnic cultural knowledge in ways that productively contribute to shaping public engagement with race politics in a contemporary context. How might visual texts work to mediate the invisible dimensions of the socio-…
Literary fictions
This article examines literature by Asian writers living in Australia. I focus on contemporary Asian Australian writing and how it has been marketed and reviewed. My aim is to present two major issues working against both its reception by Australian and international readers and the ways of thinking about representations of ‘Asia’ in general. The first issue relates to the publishing industry's tendency to box Asian Australian literature under th…
Borneo through the Lens
Early photographic and anthropological processes produced specific forms of colonial knowledge. Images of Borneo captured during the colonial period thus offer a snapshot of the emerging field of anthropology. British explorer A.C. Haddon played a role in shaping early anthropological theory, from his 1898 expedition in Torres Straits and Sarawak to the subsequent analysis of his findings upon his retum to Britain. During this time, the study of …
Homecoming
BACKGROUND: 'Homecoming: The Enigma of Returning' is a creative writing piece that was published in the Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) 2012 journal Asian Ethnicity, published by Routledge. The work contributes to a longstanding theme of enquiry on migration to Australia from Asia. The work presents an alternative story of migrant resettlement in Australia from a region of southeast Asia often overlooked in popular and scholarly engage…
"Dangerous" Historiographies
Aboriginal historiographies challenge conventional interpreting of societies and cultures' histories which are often linear, singular, and excluding of other than dominant narratives. But alternative solutions to conventional history are often binarized as minority or oppositional groups and simply "accommodated" in what continues as the dominant story. The work of Japanese scholar Minoru Hokari from his time with Gurindji people, an Aboriginal A…
Rites of passage
This article is about resettled Afghan Hazaras in Australia, many of whom are currently undergoing a complex process of transition (from transience into a more stable position) for the first time in their lives. Despite their permanent residency status, we show how resettlement can be a challenging transitional experience. For these new migrants, we argue that developing a sense of belonging during the transition period is a critical rite of pass…
Fig(urations)
This vignette about experimental participatory art is part of an intellectual foray that criss-crossed Melbourne and Manhattan. As a refusal to form, the intent was to pose more questions than to provide answers on the process of collecting for an archive. The project draws from a site-specific work, and should be read as an ode to Walter Benjamin, providing a poetic description of collecting as method, walking and philosophy
Traces
This article explores the use of mobile eye tracking to provide insights on the dynamics of haptic (touch/sense) and visual experience. We created a digital cultural walking trail (TRACES), designing an app to explore user experiences of their environment, and as a way to reveal the multilayered interactions between places and technology. Using mobile eye tracker technology to trace a person’s place-based engagements, we show how the design of ta…
From Sit-Ins To #revolutions
This timely collection of essays examines the growth of digital activism, including how international activists have employed technological innovations to tackle global problems
Bridging the geospatial gap
Indigenous knowledge of place is not well-served by today's digital geospatial technologies, such as spatial data, maps, spatial databases, and GIS. This paper aims to identify and explore new connections between Indigenous knowledge of place and digital geospatial technologies. Our analysis is structured around three key gaps in past work: (a) the overrepresentation of digital data about space, rather than knowledge of place; (b) a lack of facil…
Michael Jackson in a Borneo Village; or Autobricolage and Other Acts of Erasure
This blended genre piece politicizes place through poems, narrative, and musical mash-ups. It uses ethnography, memoir, and spoken-word song, a creative technique I call autobricolage. Refusing conventions that create immediate access to meaning, this narrative allows me to present a world in motion and time as non-linear. Sacred temporality disrupts ordinary instances of time and place and enables the erasure of colonial inscriptions. My returns…
Storying Place
Native migrant narratives in an age of alchemy and activism
This article braids our personal and political narratives to examine approaches to creative ethnography as a technique of writing for activists’ goals. Using autobricolage—mixing art, activism and ethnography—we explore narrative as a decolonising strategy to centre Indigenous ontology. The insights carry implications for how we understand and engage with the experiences of others, particularly marginalised voices. The article also offers reflect…
Indigenous Resistance in Digital Worlds
Indigenous Resistance in the Digital Age
Indigenous people hold the key to protecting the environment. The role of the digital in this relationship is indispensable
Indigenous Cartographies
With the rise of pervasive games in the last two decades, peaking with Pokémon GO , questions surrounding the perceptions, use, and ownership of public space have rapidly emerged. Beyond commercial and public uses of city spaces, how are such experiences attentive to local, regional, cross-cultural, ancient, and persistent notions of place? How can locative and pervasive experiences respond to local and Indigenous understandings of place? Perhaps…
Sociology (11 works) · Art (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works)